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Croydon Airport (ICAO: EGCR) [a] was the UK's only international airport during the interwar period. [1] [2] It opened in 1920, located near Croydon, then part of Surrey.Built in a Neoclassical style, [3] it was developed as Britain's main airport, handling more cargo, mail, and passengers than any other UK airport at the time. [2]
Croydon Airport Visitor Centre opens for public tours on the first Sunday of every month. Book ahead, as they often sell out. Book ahead, as they often sell out.
Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, Newquay, Cornwall – closed [20] Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum, North Rauceby, Lincolnshire [21] Croydon Airport Visitor Centre, Croydon, Greater London; de Havilland Aircraft Museum, London Colney, Hertfordshire; Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Farnborough, Hampshire; Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton ...
Pages in category "Croydon Airport" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. The 12.30 from ...
Commercial traffic used Croydon Airport, which was London's main airport at the time. 1935 to 1939: The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) held its annual garden party fly-ins at Heathrow airfield, at the invitation of Richard Fairey, chairman and managing director of Fairey Aviation Company Ltd, and a past president of the RAeS. The events were ...
The H.P.45 features in Roy Lockwood's 1934 short Shell Film Unit documentary Airport (a "day-in-the-life" of London's Croydon Airport). [43] H.P.45 G-AAXC Heracles appears in loading, taxiing and take-off scenes, while H.P.45 G-AAXD Horatius is seen landing and being unloaded.
The economic strength of Croydon dates back mainly to Croydon Airport which was a major factor in the development of Croydon as a business centre. Once London's main airport for all international flights to and from the capital, it was closed on 30 September 1959 due to the lack of expansion space needed for an airport to serve the growing city.
British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days 1919–1934 is an 8.44-metre (27.7 ft)-long mural by William Kempster depicting, from left to right, a chronological sequence of events in the history of British aviation on the London to Paris route starting on the left with Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in 1919 and finishing on the right at Croydon Aerodrome (now Airport House) in 1931.